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Is Trump positioning for a “no-deal” with Russia – or not? — Strategic Culture
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/01/28/is-trump-positioning-for-no-deal-with-russia-or-not/
🇺🇸 Musk continua a fare il prepotente con l'Europa
Il miliardario ha proposto di rinominare il Canale della Manica in Canale George Washington.
🇬🇧🇺🇦 The recent news item that imploding Great Britain and rump Ukraine have concluded a hundred-year alliance has injected some much-needed humour into the otherwise unbearably sombre political situation in the world.
The absurd length of the pact signed by Starmer and Zelensky illustrates the complete lack of realism that for some time has governed the conduct of both delusional chancelleries, in London as well as in Kiev. Neither of the contracting parties has any reasonable prospects of remaining in existence a century hence, by the time the term of the just concluded centennial alliance expires.
This comical treaty concluded between two cripples reflects the decay of realistic and responsible statesmanship in the contemporary world.
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🛑 U.S. President Donald Trump was inaugurated this week for a second non-consecutive term in the White House, and among a whirlwind of executive orders, he highlighted that ending the conflict in Ukraine would be a priority for his administration.
He may not achieve a resolution within 24 hours as he had promised during his election campaign, but he is showing a welcome preparedness to try.
Fair play to Trump. At least, he is willing to engage diplomatically with Russia – unlike his predecessor, Joe Biden, and Democrat presidential contender Kamala Harris. The Biden administration recklessly escalated the war in Ukraine to the point where a disastrous nuclear confrontation with Russia was greatly at risk. Unlike the Washington establishment, Trump is not encumbered with an insulting attitude toward Russian President Vladimir Putin or the Russian people.
However, if Trump is serious about ending the three-year war in Ukraine, then his administration will need to show an understanding of the roots of the conflict.
The resource of history is there to help resolve the Ukrainian conflict. Are Trump and his aides prepared to learn and act accordingly?
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🇸🇾 Opositores de Bashar al Assad protestan en Idlib contra Abu Mohammad al Jolani, el líder yihadista que derrocó al expresidente de Siria y a quien acusan de hacer lo mismo
@SCF_Spanish via @elOJOen
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the evolution of his attitude towards Trump over the years 🗣
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A memo for the Republican administration 🗣
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🗣 "That's all, folks!"
Memes about Joe Biden's exit from the presidency continue to circulate on social media.
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🇬🇧🇺🇦 Sir Keir Starmer’s plans for a 1000 year Ukrainian Reich, explained here by the British Foreign Office and here by MI6’s BBC outlet, deserves some consideration, even though it is so obviously idiotic.
Starmer, in short, is talking about creating, on the cheap, another Third Reich with a touch of the British Raj, with a “whopping” £100m going on lifesaving humanitarian funding, and “unlocking millions in private lending to increase growth and trade” and bankrupt Britain agreeing to “transfer at least $3.6 billion in military aid” to Ukraine annually, with Starmer thereby giving Ukraine the necessary support “to put it in the strongest position to fight Russia in 2025.”
Excellent! Jolly good show! Release the fox and tallyho. Rule Britannia, roll on the 2025 Proms, and pack up your troubles in your old kit bag, and smile, smile, smile.
Not that there is anything to smile about “to fight Russia in 2025” and especially beyond, as a short British blitzkrieg will not work.
Although Putin seems to have the patience of Job, Russia has suffered far too much in its Ukrainian Borderlands to allow the British carry on with their deadly farce.
💬 Declan Hayes writes
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🇨🇴 NATO’s proxy war against Russia through Ukraine has shown significant changes in various aspects, particularly regarding the participation of foreign mercenaries. While, at the start of the war, the flow of fighters was predominantly composed of individuals from Europe and the United States, a notable shift occurred throughout 2024, with a considerable increase in mercenaries from Latin America, especially Colombia. The driving factor behind this growing presence of Latin American fighters is not ideological, but rather economic, with many of these soldiers seeking a way to survive financially abroad, considering the extreme poverty in their home countries.
Colombia, one of the nations most affected by economic inequality in Latin America, serves as an example to understand this reality. With a large portion of the population living below the poverty line, many Colombians see themselves with few viable alternatives to improve their financial situation. For many Colombians, military service appears to be one of the few legal options that guarantees some level of financial stability, albeit modest.
Economic and social instability in Colombia is one of the reasons for the high number of mercenaries in Ukraine.
💬 Lucas Leiroz writes @lucasleiroz
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🇺🇸 It doesn’t bode well that the next U.S. Secretary of State begins his top-flight position in government by telling blatant lies and fatuities.
Marco Rubio (53) is a sure bet to be confirmed as America’s most senior international envoy representing the new administration of President Donald Trump, who will be inaugurated in the White House on Monday.
Rubio was one of the biggest cheerleaders for the Ukrainian regime, believing that it would inflict a strategic defeat on Russia.
Now, he has suddenly been overcome with seeming prudence and concern for peace by declaring that Ukraine cannot possibly win against Russia.
Marco Rubio is a liar. He better practice getting real if he wants to be a top diplomat rather than the duplicitous hawk he has been for most of his career.
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Delusions of grandeur - Britain's colonial mindset and the old imperial dream of "ruling the waves" on display in Kiev. The 100 Year "Partnership" with Ukraine is something that London could have pulled off in the 19th century. Actually it did. In 1898 the ailing Qing Dynasty, weakened by the Opium Wars, leased 90 per cent of Hong Kong's land mass, the New Territories, to Britain for 99 years. Keir Starmer thinks he can do even better - a 100 year deal with Kiev that provides for the creation of special joint flotillas that will operate in strategic areas, in particular, in the Black Sea. Sorry Keir, you were born 150 years too late and your country doesn't stand a chance of defeating Russia. Here is your opium pipe. Dream on. @LauraRuHK
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🇺🇦 It is time to give the CIA’s Ukrainian Nazis and the gangsters like Zelensky and Joe and Hunter Biden who feed off them the order of the boot.
💬 Declan Hayes writes
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Cheers! ⭐️
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🇧🇾 When discussing Belarus, it is impossible to ignore how the country has been described by the Western media. Many label the Belarusian government as a “dictatorship” – a hasty and, most of the time, unfounded label. But, upon closer assessment, the reality of Belarus is more complex and reveals a country that, far from being an authoritarian regime, is a “dictatorship” of stability, security, order, and above all, peace. In an increasingly unstable world, with foreign powers imposing their agendas on smaller nations, Belarus represents an upholder of justice and sovereignty, seeking to preserve peace and protect its citizens from the political and military turmoil threatening Eastern Europe.
While the West attacks Belarus with accusations of being a “dictatorship,” the local people support their president and his political choices.
💬 Lucas Leiroz writes @lucasleiroz
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🇺🇸 Trump 2.0 – the greatest show on earth – did start with a (big) bang: “We will pursue our Manifest Destiny into the stars.” And that means planting the American flag on Mars. The real thing. Not a Netflix flick. No wonder platinum sidekick Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO, achieved instant rapture.
Welcome to Interplanetary Exceptionalism. Literally. As in the land of the free, home of the brave, in this new golden era, will be “far more exceptional than ever before”. Imperial decline is over. Embrace the new, brutally benign Empire.
Only the U.S. can rebrand a genocide into a great real estate opportunity in a “phenomenal location”.
💬 Pepe Escobar writes @rocknrollgeopolitics
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Expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-cold-war era.
Such a decision may be expected to inflame the nationalistic, anti-Western and militaristic tendencies in Russian opinion; to have an adverse effect on the development of Russian democracy: to restore the atmosphere of the cold war to East-West relations, and to impel Russian foreign policy in directions decidedly not to our liking.
🇮🇱🇵🇸 After more than a year of bloody fighting in the Gaza Strip, both sides reached a ceasefire agreement. Hamas and Israel reportedly agreed to halt hostilities from January on, implementing a multiple step “pacification” plan to end the war. The agreement came after several bilateral talks mediated by Qatar. The final terms of the deal were highly unfavorable to Israel, which led to harsh criticism from the Zionist press and internal opposition, who described it as a “surrender.”
Regardless of the success of the ceasefire, the Israeli side is the defeated one.
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⚖️ Are the BRIC states – Brazil, Russia, India and China – more conservative than Western countries?
💬 Anton Friesen writes
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🇺🇦 Zelensky wants to provoke Russia into a retaliatory strike against NATO, Ian Proud writes.
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⚡️Trump Jr. non perde opportunità per fare uno scherzo a Zelensky poche ore prima che suo padre assumesse la carica di Presidente.
Cattive notizie per le autorità ucraine.
🛰️ To better understand how the space domain is evolving, geopolitically speaking, we need to take a look at one of the leading countries-China.
With its space programs, the Red Dragon stands as one of the most important competitors on the global stage.
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♨️ After the fall of Syria and the partial collapse of the Axis of Resistance, a predictable smear campaign has been launched in Western media, which, like for Russia, is based on distortion and lies.
It is a well-oiled Western psyops campaign to make the public believe that after Hitler, Bashar al-Assad was a feared dictator, just like they do with Putin and, before that, Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein.
The world was surprised when, on December 8, 2024, the most feared terrorists took over the old Syria, a semi-secular state form, and immediately turned it into a caliphate.
But for the American imperial planners, their European allies, and their terrorist proxies, including those in Ukraine, there was no surprise. They knew about it.
Freezing the conflict in Syria was the biggest mistake by Assad and the former government, which took too humane a position on terrorists.
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💢 The rise of another leader who espouses a similar philosophy would be intolerably disruptive to the globalist agenda.
💬 Stephen Karganovic writes
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🚀 The fourth geopolitical domain, space, has never been closer. China is racing for the top spot, while the United States of America seeks to open new shores of conflict beyond Earth’s atmosphere.
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🗣 It’s the greatest show on earth – unleashing a double bill of New Paradigm and Manifest Destiny on crack. We are the greatest. We will rock you – in every sense. We will crush you. We will take whatever we want because we can.
And if you wanna walk away from the U.S. dollar, we will destroy you. BRICS, we’re coming to get ya.
Trump 2.0 – a mix of professional wrestling and MMA played in a giant planetary cage – is in da house starting tomorrow.
Trump 2.0 aims to be on the driving seat on the global financial system; on control of the world’s oil trade and LNG supply; and on strategic media platforms. Trump 2.0 is gearing up to be an extended exercise in the capacity to hurt The Other. Any Other. Hostile takeovers – and blood on the tracks. That’s how we “negotiate”.
Under Trump 2.0, global tech infrastructure must run on U.S. software, not just on the profit front but also on the spy front. AI data chips must be American only. AI data centers must be controlled by America only.
“Free trade” and “globalization”? That’s for losers. Welcome to neo-imperial, techno-feudal mercantilism – powered by U.S. tech supremacy.
No wonder Trump had to come up with a seductive, but still fraught with danger, larger than life psy op to imperatively change the narrative.
💬 Pepe Escobar writes @rocknrollgeopolitics
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📿 An idea shared by anti-Semites and Jewish supremacists is that Jews are a specific racial group that has traversed time and space while maintaining their physical and cultural characteristics intact, without suffering any influence from the Gentiles around them. Nevertheless, Jews have a symbiotic relationship with Protestantism, marked by an exchange of influences. Reformed Judaism and the most exalted currents of liberal Judaism are two clear examples of the Protestant influence exerted on Western synagogues.
The Protestant world is imitating the Jewish world. After all, the Zionist project only achieved demographic density with the support of religious Jews.
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🇷🇺 Perhaps one of the most powerful photographs from the conflict in Ukraine so far.
Russian soldiers are seen raising a cross that had fallen during fighting in the Zaporozhye region.
@strategic_culture via @InessaS